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by Satam 1499 days ago
But the prices for everything else that the company's owners and employees consume are rising.
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That’s true but that’s what I meant by software has near zero marginal cost. Employees scale massively with cloud providers.

I mean a single sysadmin can automate and manage a million vms. So if the admin’s salary goes up 10% then that’s almost nothing in terms of costs for customers.

This is different from other brick and mortar businesses where the price of corn goes up 10% so the price of potato chips goes up 10%.